chest recipe is messed up

You need 2 cubic meters of pure wood to create 1 chest that is smaller than 1 cubic meter.

a chest is also not a block of pure wood so I think 2 logs for 1 chest is just a weird thing where you didn't think about after notch first created the recipe.

i would suggest to don't change the recipe but give 2 chests in stead of just 1.